Or sometimes you end up in situations where common "antipatterns" are at least locally optimal. E.g. if you are working on projects with people making low qual

Or sometimes you end up in situations where common "antipatterns" are at least locally optimal. E.g. if you are working on projects with people making low quality changes & bad automated test coverage it can be better to have a bunch of duplicate/near duplicate code if it lets you decouple things.